Let John Brown Entertainment Group be your choice for the perfect Jazz Band at your private party, corporate event, or special occasion. John Brown Entertainment Group will travel up to 3000 miles from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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AVAILABLE FOR:
Anniversaries, Awards Nights, Bachelor Parties, Bachelorette Parties, Banquets, Bar Mitzvahs, Bat Mitzvahs, Birthday Parties, Casinos, Celebrations, Children's Birthday Parties, Chinese New Year Parties, Christenings, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Cinco De Mayo Parties, Clubs, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Country Clubs, Cruise Ships, Daytona 500 Parties, Dinner Dances, Easter Celebrations, Election Day Parties, Father's Day Parties, Festivals, Fraternity Functions, Fund Raisers, Funerals, Graduation Parties, Grand Openings, Halloween Parties, Hanukkah Celebrations, Hotels, Jingles, July 4th Parties, Kentucky Derby Parties, Labor Day Parties, March Madness Parties, Mardi Gras Party, Memorial Day Parties, Mother's Day Parties, Movie Soundtracks, New Year's Eve Parties, Oktoberfest Parties, Olympics Parties, Oscar Parties, Picnic, Private Parties, Proms, Resorts, Restaurants, Reunions, Saint Patrick's Day Parties, Showers, Ski Lodges, Sorority Function, Stud
PERFORMING SINCE:
2004
PAY RANGE:
$1500-$25000 per event
INFLUENCES:
Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Cannonball Adderly, Ocsar Peterson, Jimmy Smith and Dexter Gordon are among the group's major influences.
DESCRIPTION:
John Brown is a well established, GRAMMY-nominated bassist and is the Director of the Jazz Program at Duke University. He has performed all over the world with artists like Elvin Jones, each member of the Marsalis family, Nnenna Freelon, Rosemary Clooney, Nicholas Payton, Mark Whitfield and has performed regularly with the North Carolina Symphony since 1992.
Now, John leads his own group of highly gifted professional musicians (who are available in MANY different configurations to suit your event; any one of the musicians is available individually or in other group combinations). For example, the John Brown Quintet is an award winning concert performing jazz group made up of friends who have known each other for years and simply share a deep love for music. That group, by the way has the number 15 Jazz album in the country right now, and the top two added airplay albums in the country too!
Or, you might wish to hire the the John Brown Jazz Orchestra, which is a 20 piece Jazz Orchestra (including a male and a female vocalist) comprised of the cream of the crop musicians of our area. This group also breaks down into the John Brown Jazz Band, which is a 12-piece jazz group that is most desirable for that big band sound for wedding receptions, rehearsal dinners, and private and corporate engagements.
And YES - all of the groups DO travel!
The group you choose will happily travel to perform for your event, and often like to do so when they can cultivate opportunities to go perform in schools and share jazz with students; as Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at Duke University, John is very interested in jazz performance and education.
When John's musicians get together, they form an exciting mix of talent and brotherhood encompassing the past, present and future of jazz. The combination of the diverse backgrounds of each band member, and the fire they bring to the music, makes this group the perfect setting for dynamic and creative ideas to flourish. They play with the right balance of high energy, intense swing, relaxed grooves and pensive and contemplative ballads � a balance they know well.
The group performs a wide range of jazz styles including the timeless classics of the Great American Songbook, original versions and new arrangements of traditional jazz standards, modern jazz pieces and original compositions of each band member. Collectively, the band members share decades of experience performing for all types of events all over the world. The members of the group have performed at some of the world's best known venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Jazz a Vienne (France) and other festivals in Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Belgium and Japan. When at home, the group loves to perform, and likes to contribute to the festive nature of celebrations like parties, wedding receptions and mitzvahs.
The fresh and innovative approach to performance coupled with a foundation in the tradition put the spirited ensembles of the John Brown Entertainment Group on the cutting edge of jazz - don�t miss them!
You can also find other jazz and classical musicians on the website of our parent company, Capital Music Source. We look forward to serving you!
GROUP MEMBERS:
David West - trumpet
Stephen Riley - saxophone
Brian Miller - saxophones
Ryan Robinson - trombone
Baron Tymas - guitar
John Brown - bass
Ed Paolantonio - piano
Ray Codrington - vocals & trumpet
Carol Ingbretsen - vocals
Dan Davis - drums
SONG LIST:
All Blues - Miles Davis
A Night in Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie
It Had to Be You - Frank Sinatra
Someday My Prince Will Come - as played by Miles Davis
Someone to Watch Over Me - as performed by Ella Fitzgerald
Summertime - as performed by Ella Fitzgerald
The Preacher - Horace Silver
In a Mellow Tone - Duke Ellington
Georgia On My Mind - as performed by Ray Charles
Mack the Knife - as performed by Ella Fitzgerald
Do Nothin 'til You Hear From Me - Billy Strayhorn
Autumn Leaves - as played by Miles Davis
On the Sunny Side of the Street - as played by Joshua Redman
Bye Bye Blackbird - as played by Miles Davis
Meditation - Altonio Carlos Jobim
St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
In A Sentimantal Mood - Duke Ellington
They Can't Take That Away From Me - as performed by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
The Days of Wine and Roses - as played by Ray Brown
My Little Suede Shoes - Charlie Parker
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes - John Coltrane
But Not For Me - as played by Ray Brown
It's Only A Paper Moon - as performed by Natalie Cole
L-O-V-E - as performed by Natalie Cole
Shiny Stockings - Frank Foster
As Time Goes By - Frank Sintra
Satin Doll - Duke Ellington
All of Me - as performed by Tony Bennett
Lulu's Back in Town - as performed by Mel Torme
. . . and MANY others! A complete list is available upon request. Thanks!
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John Brown and his group were an absolute pleasure to work with. They were very professional and unbelievably talented. As a musician myself, with numerous friends in attendance who were also musicians, we were all very impressed with the quality and caliber of the music and the ability of the group. They were incredible. I cannot stress enough that these guys are without a doubt, THE BEST jazz group I've heard at a wedding, and in general! Great! A++++. I would highly recommend them.
--Brian T. Fuquay Varina, NC 6/2/2007
The John Brown Quintet was absolutely fabulous!! We had nearly 300 people at our event and I heard nothing but rave reviews. We will definitely work with John and his band again.
--Tammy S. Durham, NC 12/20/2005
The group is cohesive, talented, inspired. Many fine original compositions thrilled our audience. Each soloist was superb, and ensemble playing was tight and compelling. The standing ovation and insistence on an encore told the tale.
--Bo F. Asheville, NC 6/12/2005
Please note, in addition to Chapel Hill, John Brown Entertainment Group also serves the surrounding towns of Carrboro, Durham, Hillsborough, Swepsonville, Efland, Morrisville, Pittsboro, Burlington, Alamance, Cary, Mebane, Raleigh, Bahama, Altamahaw, Apex, Haw River, New Hill, Cedar Grove, Sedalia, Butner, Graham, Hurdle Mills, Moncure, Snow Camp, Rougemont, Holly Springs, Creedmoor, Greensboro, Timberlake, Prospect Hill and many other locations in and around the Chapel Hill area.
Saturday, September 13, 2008